Sick scoreboard card, pt. 2

Oh, yes. I did go there.

I was trying to think of a title for my new series on scoreboard cards. I wanted to try to tie it in with the "awesome night card" title somehow.

So, I thought, why not use one of the most despised, over-used, ridiculous words ever uttered in conjunction with rectangular cardboard pieces? Then I would be using that irksome word for purposes of good rather than evil. I'd also be using "sick" to describe a common-variety base card. Wouldn't that make a mojo jojo's head explode?

So that's what I'm gonna do. Like "awesome," "sick" is a word I rarely use in public, unless someone I know is running a temperature. But on the blog? Anything goes, kiddies.

Today's SICK scoreboard card is the 1981 Fleer Rich Gale card. I like this particular card because it shows Exhibition Stadium's SICK scoreboard. Exhibition Stadium was the Blue Jays' home for their first 10-plus years of existence. It was SICK!

I remember watching the Blue Jays' very first home game in 1977 on my grandmother's SICK television in Buffalo while on Easter vacation. It snowed. Not at my grandmother's. At the game.

Even though Toronto was rather close to me, I never got to a game at Exhibition Stadium. It wasn't until 25 years later that I attended a Blue Jays game (it was Roger Clemens vs. Andy Pettitte. SICK!).

Anyway, I enjoy the classic old scoreboard, but I have no idea what is up with that glob of electric light in the bottom left corner of the scoreboard. Plus, the foul pole running through the center of the card kind of obscures the scoreboard.

So, with that, I can only give the '81 Fleer Rich Gale card:

Two out of a possible four disembodied hand claps.

Maybe it's not a SICK scoreboard card. Maybe it's merely an Under The Weather scoreboard card.